DATA CENTER ATTRIBUTES

Unique physical security and
infrastructure design attributes make Recovery Point’s disaster recovery
facilities among the most resilient commercial sites in the United
States. With concurrent maintainability built into all electrical and
mechanical infrastructure, our sites are purpose-built to mitigate risks
associated with any single point of failure and to operate for extended
periods of time without access to municipal utilities.

Independent Assurance of Resilience

The details of data center
infrastructure design really matter when selecting a hosting provider.
Data center operators often advertise facilities that are “designed to
meet” independently established standards for infrastructure resilience
but offer little more than their own website marketing claims as
evidence of actual compliance. The Uptime Institute’s Tier Standards for
Operational Sustainability program is universally recognized as the
best independent measurement of infrastructure resiliency because of the
Uptime Institute’s rigorous examination, inspection and certification
processes.

Recovery Point is proud to be one of a small number of data center
operators in the United States to have received formal certification
from the prestigious Uptime Institute for Tier III data center
infrastructure. And it’s not just one location. Our data centers in both
Germantown and Gaithersburg, Maryland have both been certified to meet
the design criteria for Tier III concurrently maintainable facilities
and our Germantown facility has also received Tier III Certification of
Constructed Facility, the industry’s most coveted recognition.

If a facility’s design and construction isn’t independently certified,
there’s no proof that it really meets any standards — or your needs.

Concurrently Maintainable and 100% Available

The expansion of online
services with 100% uptime requirements and the demand for
high-availability recovery solutions have made many hosting facilities
obsolete, including a variety of recently constructed sites. That is
because, while traditional data center design offers some protection
against occasional equipment failure, it puts your application
availability at risk when scheduled electrical or mechanical maintenance
and upgrades are being performed. And sooner or later, everything
supporting your equipment will need maintenance. Recovery Point’s Tier
III data center services are certified to be concurrently maintainable,
having multiple, independent electrical and mechanical distribution
paths to mitigate those risks. Because only one distribution path is
required at any time, any path can be safely removed from service for
planned maintenance without impacting your services. Recovery Point’s
concurrently maintainable infrastructure offers scalability without
disruption.

Secure and Audited

As with infrastructure
resilience, the details of a hosting facility’s security design matter a
great deal because clients count on uninterrupted services during the
most critical situations. Every Recovery Point facility is sited more
than 25 miles away from a major city center and a safe distance away
from obvious potential threats such as fragile geology, symbolic targets
and other high-risk activities. Each location has been constructed to
withstand extended commercial power outages, telecommunications
disruptions and attempts at forced entry. Our newest flagship facility
has been designed to meet GSA Level D building blast resistance
standards for new Federal office buildings.